Virgil Percec
Virgil Percec (* 1946 in Romania ) is an American - Romanian chemist at the University of Pennsylvania , Philadelphia .
Percec obtained a bachelor's degree from the Polytechnic in Iași ( Technical University of Iași ) in 1969 and a Ph.D. in 1976 from CI Simionescu. in polymer chemistry . Initially, he continued his research there on cis -poly ( phenylacetylene ). From 1981 he worked as a postdoctoral fellow with Hans-Joachim Cantow at the Institute for Macromolecular Chemistry at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg in Germany and until 1982 with JP Kennedy at the University of Akron , Ohio , in the USA. In 1982 he became an assistant professor at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland , Ohio, where he became an associate professor in 1984 and a full professorship in macromolecular chemistry in 1986 . Since 1999 he has been P. Roy Vagelos Professor of Chemistry at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.
Percec is concerned with a biological process-oriented synthesis of complex non-biological molecules (in particular covalent and supramolecular polymers, liquid crystalline polymers and dendrimers ) that have biological properties. He has authored over 650 scientific publications and 12 monographs and holds 50 patents.
Awards (selection)
- 1993 member of the Romanian Academy
- 2004 ACS Award in Polymer Chemistry
- 2007 honorary doctorate from the Technical University of Iași
- 2007 Honorary Doctorate from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
- 2008 Herman F. Mark Medal from the Austrian Research Institute for Chemistry and Technology
Web links
- Profile at the University of Pennsylvania (upenn.edu)
- www.percec.org - The Percec Group
- Professor Virgil Percec at the Australian Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology at the University of Queensland (uq.edu.au)
Individual evidence
- ↑ LISTA COMPLETĂ A MEMBRILOR DE ONOARE DIN STRĂINĂTATE ( Memento from February 2, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) ( Microsoft Word file, 332 kB) at the Romanian Academy (academiaromana.ro).
- ^ ACS Award in Polymer Chemistry from the American Chemical Society (acs.org); accessed on January 31, 2014.
- ↑ V. Percec receives ACS Prize for Polymer Chemistry. In: Angewandte Chemie . 116, 2004, pp. 1344-1344, doi: 10.1002 / anie.200481029 .
- ↑ Herman F. Mark Medal 2008 ( Memento from February 2, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 17 kB) from Austrian Cooperative Research (acr.at).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Percec, Virgil |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American-Romanian chemist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1946 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Romania |